The Five Sources of a Leader’s Power‚ and how (and how not) to use them Power is a force of influence and authority. Most leaders wield power‚ but how power is manifested and used often differs between leaders. Where does a leader get power from? Or do a leader’s followers give it to them? Well it’s both. In this article‚ we’ll be looking at the five different sources of power a leader can use‚ with some advice on when these powers should be used‚ and perhaps when not. The five sources of a leader’s
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are made by the free consent of the parties competent to contract. As what i’ve been thought and my understanding‚ there are five causes which lead to the voidable contract. They are : 1. Coercion (S.15) 2. Undue influence (S.16) 3. Fraud (S.17) 4. Misrepresentation (S.18) 5. Mistake (S.22‚23‚24) Coercion Coercion is commiting or threatening to commit any act forbidden by the Penal Code‚ or the unlawful detaining or threatening to detain‚ any property‚ to the prejudice of any person to enter into
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The son of Scottish migrants to Manitoba in the early 1900’s‚ Tommy Douglas grew up with a strong Christian underpinning of the ‘Protestant Work Ethic’ and the Christian ‘social gospel’ – a ‘belief that Christianity was above all a social religion‚ concerned as much with improving this world as with the life hereafter’. (Lovick and Marshall) These foundations initially led him to becoming a Baptist Minister in the small country town of Weyburn in Saskatchewan in 1930. However not quite 26 years
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following paragraphs. Classification of Wars 2. Coercion. It is the Active use of force in a measured way or threat of force to persuade an adversary to adopt a certain pattern of behaviour against his wishes. US air attack on Col Qaddafi’s residence in 1986 and American cruise missile attack against Afghanistan in 1998 are the examples of coercion by use of measured force. While‚ Indian “Operation Parakrama” in 2001-2 against Pakistan was coercion by threat of force. 3. Sub Conventional Wars
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which is based on the twin themes of coercion and violence. Gramsci argues that state coercive power and consent or ideology is located within civil society with the spontaneous consent of the people. Althusser theorizes this as the repressive state apparatus which consisted of the army‚ the police and the prisons. This is the ideological state apparatus consisting of religion‚ schools and media. In reality most of these institutions use the combination of coercion and consent‚ for example‚ the army
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Republican victory. Abraham Lincoln‚ better known as Honest Abe‚ is mostly remembered for freeing slaves and of course‚ his top hat. On the other hand‚ Stephen A. Douglas is known as the Little Giant because of his political power and short stature. On November 5‚ 1860‚ Abraham Lincoln won the 16th Presidential election against Stephen A. Douglas for numerous reasons. Lincoln wants to free slaves and his debates‚ but what really helped him win is that the Democratic Party was divided. Abraham Lincoln
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“The liberty of thought and discussion” By John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)‚ British philosopher‚ economist‚ great liberal (or libertarian)‚ moral and political theorist‚ and administrator‚ was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. His views are of continuing significance‚ and are generally recognized to be among the deepest and certainly the most effective defenses of empiricism and of a liberal political view of
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1. Principles and Practices of Management ASSIGNMENTS HOW WILL YOU INFLUENCE PEOPLE TO STRIVE WILLINGLY FOR GROUP OBJECTIVES IN YOUR ORGANIZATION? APPLY YOUR INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE THROUGH COMMUNICATION TOWARDS ATTAINING YOUR SPECIALIZED GOALS? ANS: Several organizational factors must be placed in order for a team to succeed: 1. Common and consistent goals that are accepted by all team members. Organizational commitment to the team concept‚ including support from top management
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Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven Lincoln-Douglas Debates between Stephen Douglas‚ who was bidding for reelection to the Senate‚ and Abraham Lincoln‚ who had offered the challenge of these debates to Douglas‚ as among the most significant events in American political history. The debaters attracted national interest because of Douglas’s prominence and his break with President Buchanan’s administration. The main topic involved in the debates was based around slavery and the
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argues. Olson (2004: 2) states that "it is not in fact true that the idea that groups will act in their self-interest follows logically from the premise of rational and self-interested behavior." Collective action groups‚ without some sort of coercion or special device to make individual participants act in the interest of the group‚ will not succeed because "rational‚ self-interested individuals will not to act to achieve their common or group interests." Not every attempt at collective action
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